Colorado's 1st Microbrewery
The Boulder Beer Company was Colorado's first microbrew and the forty-third
licensed brewery in the United States. It was founded on September 25, 1979 by
David Hummer, Alvin Nelson, and Randolf Ware. Ware and Hummer were physics
professors at the University of Colorado at Boulder and home brewers. When the
laws surrounding home brewing were relaxed, the brewery originally started on a
farm in a "goatshack."

History
The Boulder Beer Company was originally known as the Boulder Brewing Company and
went public in 1980, raising over US$1.7 million. A decade later, in 1990, the
company changed its name to Boulder Beer company when Gina Day took the company
private. In 1993 the company again renamed itself as the "Rockies Brewing
Company." In 2002, the Rockies Brewing Company entered into a strategic
agreement with Rock Bottom Breweries allowing Rock Bottom to brew and sell their
Singletrack Ale. In 2005, the company again changed it name back to the Boulder
Beer Company.